Colombia quake death toll tops 200 as rescuers race to find survivors
Emergency crews are still searching for survivors as authorities say about 224 people were killed and thousands of homes were damaged.
- Early on Monday, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Colombia's coffee-growing region, killing at least 164 people and reducing buildings to rubble in Pereira, Cali, and Manizales.
- This disaster draws comparisons to a deadly 1999 earthquake that devastated the same coffee-growing region, killing more than 1,000 people, underscoring the area's long-term seismic vulnerability.
- Hospital director Irne Torres Castro reported that several top floors collapsed during the quake, forcing some 600 patients to be treated on rubble-strewn streets.
- President Abelardo de la Espriella, who took office three days before the quake, ordered 1,000 security forces deployed to Cali to address looting reports.
- Rescue efforts extended into Tuesday as volunteer Carmen Yasmin Garcia reported her team freed seven people from a collapsed building, though four others and a dog remained trapped.
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The death toll from a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Colombia has risen to over 240. Hundreds of people are trapped under rubble in Cali and Pereira. Rescue efforts are ongoing, and buildings are still collapsing.
«I saw people come out naked, people throw themselves out of their homes (...) desperate», said Wilmer Cuesta, a law student who decided to...
In Colombia, the number of victims of a powerful earthquake continues to rise, with the largest number of deaths occurring in the Pereira and Cali regions.
According to authorities, it could take days to determine the true extent of the damage and the final death toll.
A young woman called on the Colombian authorities to remove her dead mother's body, who remains under the rubble of a collapsed building in the Chiminango neighborhood after the earthquake. Through social networks, the young woman reported that her mother's body is exposed and that “everybody sees it,” so many people approach the structure to take pictures of her. Young woman asks for help to rescue her mother's lifeless body after an earthquake…
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